2016年10月1日的新SAT考试已经落下帷幕，小编为大家整理了香港及新加坡考区的SAT写作考情进行分析，希望对大家的SAT考试有所帮助。

　　写作部分

　　1、Source Text题目与来源：

　　“Read, Kids, Read”，作者Frank Bruni，2014年5月12日发表于New York Times。未经出题方改动的原版字数为637字。

　　2、学生对难度的反应：

　　学生反应难度整体而言不是很大;文章结构较散较简单——但也因为这样，如果想要单独写一个比较出色的文章结构分析段的话，比较有挑战;论据(Evidence)和修辞(Rhetorical devices)定位比较简单。

　　3、SourceText特点抢先分析：

　　1)话题种类：教育类的话题，官方OG已经出现过相关的话题文章，并且相对而言，教育类的话题不管是针对普高、国际高中抑或是美高的孩子来说，都不算是陌生或者难度大的话题。

　　希望了解或者进一步加强教育类话题的掌握程度的考生请自动自觉找到OG Practice3 “The Digital Parent Trap”;“Why Literature Matters”;以及啄木鸟教育新SAT写作蓝宝书题目P130 “If Student Can’t Write, How Can They Learn?”;P143 “How Poverty Affects Children’s Brains”;P148 “China’s Academic Obsession with Testing”;P164 “Better Education Starts with Honesty about Achievement Gaps”。

　　2)文章架构：

　　文章开头先抑后扬，在进入到作者心心念念的主题“读书有益，特别是对心智的成长和人的发展有益”之前，先自嘲了一下自己在与小孩相关的某些方面也显得很大神经——但是一涉及小孩看书这件事情的时候就丝毫不放松，语气轻松诙谐，引人入胜。接着，作者抛出自己的观点和观察，包括有研究发现愿意以阅读获得乐趣的孩子越来越少。而后，作者举证论述阅读对人的心智发展有好处，并意图强化人的成功与阅读之间的关联度，到底是仅仅有关联还是因果关系“In terms of smarts and success, is reading causative or merely correlated?”，也由此进入了文章中很重要的部分，为什么阅读可以指引人走上成功的道路，包括了能读懂书的人，也更能读懂人 “…people who read fiction… are more adept at reading people, too… They’re more empathetic. God knows we need that.”和安静的阅读能让提高注意力“Maybe that’s about the quiet of reading, the pace of it…”which“hones ‘the ability to focus and concentrate’”等等。

　　3)论据：

　　文章当中使用了很多的数据、权威人士和权威机构的研究声明等等。这一部分的定位和标记都比较简单，但是考生还是要建立在对文章结构分析后的基础上方能对各项论据的真用途分析准确和细致。

　　4)修辞与措辞：

　　文章当中也使用了相当多的修辞手法，包括类比“Professional writers arguing for vigorous reading are dinosaurs begging for a last breath”、设问“In terms of smarts and success, is reading causative or merely correlated? Which comes first, “The Hardy Boys” or the hardy mind?”“Doesn’t reading do the same?

　　”前后照应“I may well be responsible for 10 percent of all sales of ‘The Fault in Our Stars’”照应“That observation brought to mind a moment in ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ when one of the protagonists says that sometimes, 头韵“with thoughts less jumbled, moods less jangled”等等。用词方面与文章的语气一致，轻松诙谐，也比较灵动，如“I’m reliably hurling novels at them, and also at friends’ kids.”中的“hurling”等等。

　　5)附上New York Times原文(来源网站：http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/opinion/bruni-read-kids-read.html)

　　As an uncle I’m inconsistent about too many things.

　　Birthdays, for example. My nephew Mark had one on Sunday, and I didn’t remember — and send a text — until 10 p.m., by which point he was asleep.

　　School productions, too. I saw my niece Bella in “Seussical: The Musical” but missed “The Wiz.” She played Toto, a feat of trans-species transmogrification that not even Meryl, with all of her accents, has pulled off.

　　But about books, I’m steady. Relentless. I’m incessantly asking my nephews and nieces what they’re reading and why they’re not reading more. I’m reliably hurling novels at them, and also at friends’ kids. I may well be responsible for 10 percent of all sales of “The Fault in Our Stars,” a teenage love story to be released as a movie next month. Never have I spent money with fewer regrets, because I believe in reading — not just in its power to transport but in its power to transform.

　　So I was crestfallen on Monday, when a new report by Common Sense Media came out. It showed that 30 years ago, only 8 percent of 13-year-olds and 9 percent of 17-year-olds said that they “hardly ever” or never read for pleasure. Today, 22 percent of 13-year-olds and 27 percent of 17-year-olds say that. Fewer than 20 percent of 17-year-olds now read for pleasure “almost every day.” Back in 1984, 31 percent did. What a marked and depressing change.

　　I know, I know: This sounds like a fogy’s crotchety lament. Or, worse, like self-interest. Professional writers arguing for vigorous reading are dinosaurs begging for a last breath. We’re panhandlers with a better vocabulary.

　　But I’m coming at this differently, as someone persuaded that reading does things — to the brain, heart and spirit — that movies, television, video games and the rest of it cannot.

　　There’s research on this, and it’s cited in a recent article in The Guardian by Dan Hurley, who wrote that after “three years interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists around the world,” he’d concluded that “reading and intelligence have a relationship so close as to be symbiotic.”

　　In terms of smarts and success, is reading causative or merely correlated? Which comes first, “The Hardy Boys” or the hardy mind? That’s difficult to unravel, but several studies have suggested that people who read fiction, reveling in its analysis of character and motivation, are more adept at reading people, too: at sizing up the social whirl around them. They’re more empathetic. God knows we need that.

　　Late last year, neuroscientists at Emory University reported enhanced neural activity in people who’d been given a regular course of daily reading, which seemed to jog the brain: to raise its game, if you will.

　　Some experts have doubts about that experiment’s methodology, but I’m struck by how its findings track something that my friends and I often discuss. If we spend our last hours or minutes of the night reading rather than watching television, we wake the next morning with thoughts less jumbled, moods less jangled. Reading has bequeathed what meditation promises. It has smoothed and focused us.

　　Maybe that’s about the quiet of reading, the pace of it. At Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City, whose students significantly outperform most peers statewide, the youngest kids all learn and play chess, in part because it hones “the ability to focus and concentrate,” said Sean O’Hanlon, who supervises the program. Doesn’t reading do the same?

　　Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, framed it as a potentially crucial corrective to the rapid metabolism and sensory overload of digital technology. He told me that it can demonstrate to kids that there’s payoff in “doing something taxing, in delayed gratification.” A new book of his, “Raising Kids Who Read,” will be published later this year.

　　Before talking with him, I arranged a conference call with David Levithan and Amanda Maciel. Both have written fiction in the young adult genre, whose current robustness is cause to rejoice, and they rightly noted that the intensity of the connection that a person feels to a favorite novel, with which he or she spends eight or 10 or 20 hours, is unlike any response to a movie.

　　That observation brought to mind a moment in “The Fault in Our Stars” when one of the protagonists says that sometimes, “You read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

　　Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I’m convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

　　以上就是小编为大家整理的香港和新加坡考区10月1日的新SAT写作考情分析，希望对大家的写作考试有所帮助。

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